Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : The challenge of the Third World / Robert J. McMahon -- His finest hour? Eisenhower, Lebanon, and the 1958 Middle East crisis / Douglas Little -- The Caribbean triangle : Betancourt, Castro, and Trujillo and U.S. foreign policy, 1958-1963 / Stephen G. Rabe -- "Flee! The white giants are coming!" : The United States, mercenaries, and the Congo, 1964-1965 / Piero Gleijeses -- The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1968 : capitalism, communism, and containment / Robert Buzzanco -- Decolonization, the Cold War, and the foreign policy of the Peace Corps / Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman -- The influence of organized labor on U.S. policy toward Israel, 1945-1967 / Peter L. Hahn -- Real men don't wear pajamas : Anglo-American cultural perceptions of Mohammed Mossadeq and the Iranian oil nationalization dispute / Mary Ann Heiss -- Gender relations, foreign relations : the United States and South Asia, 1947-1964 / Andrew J. Rotter -- Like boxing with Joe Louis : Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela, 1945-1948 / Darlene Rivas -- "Fuel for the good dragon" : the United States and industrial policy in Taiwan, 1950-1965 / Nick Cullather

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